skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, when I heard that there was a report of "68%" error rate from the machines, I was a little surprised. Then when I heard it came from comedian Russell Ramsland, I thought: "Oh, I bet he did something like count all the messages in a log file and divide that by the number of ballots counted". And sure enough...

It's like the telephone scammers that try to dupe old people into giving them access to their PC by convincing them that they have a virus. Their proof? Get the trusting boomer to open the Windows Event Viewer, which on pretty much anybody's PC is replete with trivial warnings and errors. Then pretend that means something is terribly, terribly wrong.
This has happened to me on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. This thread has a screenshot and description of what I mean: This thread has a screenshot and description of exactly what I mean. It's happened to me pretty regularly. This is default FF behavior. https://superuser.com/questions/1451210/how-can-i-make-firef...
Yes, I watched.

I agree those can be very compact, and looks like a whole world is depicted in 4kb with music!

Demos are based on combining perfect geometrical structures in clever ways (planes, spheres, sinusoids, etc) because they all can be compactly expressed with the type of algebra/arithmetic/geometry that is exactly what our CPUs were built for.

If you watch many demos you tend to see certain symmetries, reflections, and other artifacts that make it all seem repetitive and plain (despite the number of moving objects, effects, etc.)

The process in this cell dividing feels very different to me, but it is hard to put my finger on it.
Very interesting. Do you know of a way I can confirm this discrepancy is resolved? I can find registered voter counts and votes tallied, but not votes cast counts.
Firefox is really fast, it feels a lot more responsive on my system and boot time is almost instant.
For me:
- issue weights
- iterations
- multiple issue assignees
- issue dependencies

We did evaluate silver (now premium), and it wasn't worth it. We will probably upgrade, but this is a 5x increase on the price, and as a long term contributor of Gitlab, this does definitely make me angry.
Can you elaborate on the tracking part? I am a Plex user but unaware of this.

I found this [1] but it appears to be that they were tracking only at a very generic level.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/5zrxtd/plex_the_compa...
That's still content targeting: They're basing the ads they place next to content based on the expected audience for that content. Everyone watching that content sees that ad, no problem.

We get into issues when we're dealing with ads being placed based on who is viewing the content.
I can't tell if it's because my fingers are simply getting too "bumbling" to type correctly, but I've also noticed that auto correct is a lot worse on Android. Frequently my typos go unfixed or merged together, and it fails to catch a lot of things now. Frequently the word options provided aren't even close to what I have typed.

I've often pondered if it's the software, or the fact that it's easier to mistype with touch screens than the old phone buttons, thus increasing my error rate.
>My point is that btc is being targeted as big bad meanwhile same people who demonize it for its environmental damage are perfectly fine with heavy industry causing global warming.

The difference is that with heavy industry, we sacrifice environmental quality in exchange for a product with known utility (gas to make our cars go, energy to light/heat our homes, etc). While industrial products can function as a medium for speculation, and do make a few people very rich, they are still primarily produced for immediate consumption.

Bitcoin does not, per se, provide any utility to anyone other than speculation.
i started working at a place that would get stacks of flyers across the fax machine every day , they would just toss them in the recycling bin all the while wasting tons of paper and ink .. i started calling all the removal numbers and got it down to zero .. they thought the fax machine was broken haha.
I second this, the only thing from starter was "pull mirroring", and now I'm priced out of even thinking buying Gitlab premium.
If y'all have Kodi setup, I highly recommend the Internet Archive Game Launcher

https://github.com/zach-morris/plugin.program.iagl
We have a small development team (20) but 100+ clients that have reporter role.

We are in the process of moving out some clients so we could use Starter. Premium was too expensive because reporters count as a user and guests are only free in Ultimate.

So now we are looking for alternatives, which sucks because as a developer I really liked Gitlab.

Does anyone have any recommendations?
Do you have an account with every gas station that you use? Grocery store? Restaurant? There's some tech bias to this line of thinking.
Thanks for posting! I don't have enough context to help you solve.

Do you want to send a screenshot of your terminal? michel [@] airbyte.io
Sorry, uBlock Origin
I wouldn’t really call the intermission an ad break as they’re not really trying to sell you something. The main purpose is as a buffer between shows with slightly different timings or with live shows that won’t finish at an exact time (or may overrun like sports matches). You get the same on the radio too though they often have a short news briefing in the gap as well. Very occasionally they will have too large a gap to fill and read a poem.
Is it actually required to have employees wake up and replace that specific failed drive to restore full capacity of a tome? I would expect an automatic process - disable and remove failed drive completely from a tome, add SOME free reserve drive at SOME rack in the datacenter to the tome, and start populating it immediately. And originally failed drive can be replaced afterwards without hurry.
What signs?
Too much is failing from single point outages. The FCC may have to establish standards to prevent over-centralization.

In the entire history of the Bell System, no electromechanical central office was ever down for more than 30 minutes for any reason than a natural disaster or, one occasion, a major file. That record has not been maintained in the Internet era.
The story doesn't have to be about how the old days with the old barriers to entry was the way. What it's definitely about is the flaws and problems in the current way, where platforms collect from continuous posting and participants collect from long tail effects.
Ask HN: Datomic or Crux vs. Mariadb or Timescaldb?
I need to implement a double entry accounting system with immutable and auditable record, which database is right for me? Can anybody share their experiences or perhaps in production?

Datomic and Crux uses datalog which from the online learning wizard appears to be pretty useful at writing very detailed questions about data in the present and past, it does appear to have a very high learning curve.

On the other hand, Mariadb offers Temporal Tables which seems to be what I'm after and its still a normal MySQL table that everybody is familiar with, concern being scalability and whether if there are anybody in production using it.

Timescaledb seems orientated for storing ticker data but unsure what is query functionality is but if its built to scale for lots of writes perhaps this might be the optimal tool. I am not sure if it offers immutability.

Crux is also an interesting open source alternative to Datomic but at this point not sure what its offerings are over Datomic.
Why would you revert a branch (in source) before deploying it? You already have the old known good version in the history, so you should deploy that.
The P1 variant is specifically of interest.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/01/21/9589534...
I am really confused by this position.

How do you propose that companies should promote their products and services, if not through advertising?

Are you somehow suggesting that they should just sit there and hope that people who have never heard of their product independently decide they happen to want or need that product and seek it out, unprompted?

You say "people part with their money for things they wouldn't think they needed, Our economy can't handle this kind of reckless consumerism anymore": Surely you don't think you speak for everyone?

You certainly don't speak for me.

I am not some blind sheep who is suckered into buying things I don't need. I am a grown adult who can make informed decisions with my money, including sometimes buying frivolous or unnecessary things.

I hate these arguments that assume everyone is stupid except for the person making the argument. It feels like there's some weird savior complex at work.

People have free will and are allowed to spend their money as they wish, and I think YOU are the cynical one if you think otherwise..
Bold move. 3 examples of rockstar's truly rocking it as readable case studies may put this on the map. Best of luck!
>multiple issue assignees

>issue dependencies

FWIW these are available in Gitea, along with some other Gitlab features that require payment.

It's a much more lightweight alternative, though.

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/
Exactly. There are 2 problems with requiring payments in Brazil:

1 - Most people will not want to pay. They will spend a whole day/weekend trying to find a free alternative, even if it costs just a couple bucks.

2 - Many, many people don't have credit cards. You would need to support boleto or debit. Generating and managing boletos adds cost, so you would need to increase your fees not to lose money
No one who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
1. You'll have to define "slow" - I have a 3TB table where an index only scan takes under 1ms

2. hot_standby_feedback is absolutely safe. I've got 5 hot standbys in prod with that flag enabled

3. Again, it depends on how "heavy" your update throughput is. It is definitely tough to find the right balance to configure autovacuum between "so slow that it can't keep up" and "so fast that it eats up all your I/O"
I have an old browser in a container. Flash stopped working without any browser updates. Why?
> This is not a new docs platform: Open Web Docs is instead working closely with existing platforms, and its current priority is contributions to MDN Web Docs.

https://web.dev/open-web-docs/

Disclosure: I work on web.dev
10x Query Performance with the Right Database Index
> It does not contradict my suggestion that younger people are choosing to have less sex.

People make choices based on their situation. Their situation leads them to choose less sex. You're proving my point.

> Nor does it disprove the theory that the availability of alternatives to in-person sex has made it less attractive.

I don't buy this theory. Masturbation always felt good, and I doubt if you put the option of easy sex next to masturbating most would choose the easy sex. The problem is that easy sex is hard to find. Partners have less time and have more pressures now than in prior times - thus reducing opportunities and reducing overall sex. It isn't just young people having less sex:

> From 2000 to 2002, 71 percent and 69 percent of married men and women, respectively, reported having sex weekly. In 2016 to 2018, that dropped to 58 and 61 percent of married men and women, respectively, having weekly sex.

Even married men and women are having less sex.

Options like pornography aren't people's first choice. They'd probably choose sex if all things were equal. Just like you'd rather choose a steak over chicken tenders - but if you can't get the steak, and it's too hard to get the steak, you settle for the chicken tenders, and here we are.
They're kinda cute but their finger is "Natures ugly hack"
How does this compare with others like Kodi and OSMC?
You've obviously thought this out extensively and decided to advertise. Who am I to offer a better solution? You know your business domain, revenue needs, etc better than me or anyone else.

However, that does not mean I have to agree to advertising -- whether it is labeled ethical, green, sustainable, cage-free or whatever. If you're lucky, you won't have a lot of extremists like myself visiting your site; i.e. the advertising will be successful.
It’s worse. All my posts are quickly downvoted, no matter the final count they always start with a downvote. I think someone I pissed off is running a bot.
I wouldn't doubt it. Single misconfigured routers have caused issues of similar scale.
I find it irritating because one of the core principles of this kind of technology, to me, is that it should serve the user, not the other way around. I expect to be able to run the earliest version of windows 10 and go out to all sorts of virus-laden websites if I decide to. It's one thing to automatically download updates and let the user apply them when ready, but to actually disable the browser until the user complies is just unacceptable for me. Hence why I disable it.

I do applaud firefox for supporting so much customization, as in this case. If I weren't able to disable this behavior I would have stopped using firefox immediately.
We are in the same boat. Probably going to downgrade to free.
It's nice at least a few dead Google products get open sourced instead of deleted outright. I have to imagine this is only possible because it's pretty much entirely a client-side desktop application that doesn't rely on Google servers for much.

Exactly why building apps for the cloud is a big downside.
Anyone else find it odd that the headline clumps Zoom, a service that relies on the internet being up, with Verizon, arguably a service that ensures that the internet is up to begin with? Feels a bit like saying "the power's out, causing issues for P&G and your refrigerator"
> In three separate elections this century there were Democrats in Congress who voted against certifying the election results.

No, there weren’t. The only votes on objections to an electoral tally prior to 2020 in this century (counting 2000 as “in this century”, to avoid ambiguity) were in 2004.

In 2000 and 2016 there were no votes, because votes only occur after the count is stopped for debate on an objection, which only occurs when a legal objection is filed, which (1) must be in writing, and (2) must be signed by both a Senator and a member of the House of Representatives.

In 2000 and 2016 some members of the House engaged in floor stunts proposing objections which were not signed by a member of a Senate, which resulted in no debate or vote as they were ruled out of order because, well, they were out of order.

> You can hand wave it away as much as you like. The facts will remain. It’s on the voting record.

Yeah, the voting record is against you here, so you probably want to stop waving your hands in its general direction.
It definitely is. On AWS, you can run it on spot instances with autoscaling. Including also networking price, it is an order of magnitude cheaper.
Reminds me of the time I put Arch on an Asus netbook and then didn't have any use for that, because it was too small and had an anemic Atom CPU.

Currently my performance and portability needs converge on a M1 MacBook Air, but I kinda wish i was doing on site support for embedded stuff or something, so I could just run around a building and be able to whip this bad boy out with an 80s-movie sound effect.
I've also seen it where the customer doesn't really understand this shipping service. Jarvis desks have multiple warnings about delivering to your house. IIRC if you live in NYC they don't even let you chose that option, you have to pay $150 more for lift gate.
I generally agree. We've always taken the "grand-fathering" approach, but it can get a bit more complicated as your product and offerings grow. If someone was paying $XX /mo for your initial offering, and a few years later, you're able to provide a number of new features within that product, I don't think you necessarily need to continue providing those extra features simply because someone signed up earlier.

To your point, you may face a backlash. But it also costs a lot of time and $$ to support new development and features. Therefore, having some backlash may still be the right decision in the medium/long term. Can be hard to weather that storm initially, though.
it's too much, not enough, and too many issues around

I like more balanced meals in a way

And it's a bit objective too. IRC, Mailing lists did a lot with few. Now you have to have discord/slack/zulip to .. do the same ? consider the average website bloat.

It's not pure nostalgia (I can realize my biases a bit)
Running scrapers can get you there pretty fast ;)
FIOS is WAY better, they will fix their broken cable. I get (so far unlimited) 30gb up/down for $40/mo but it typically runs closer to 60 down 70 up. Fiber optic is baller. Though I do feel like they throttle me (web browsing becomes slow) if I am watching a streaming video service or mining crypto without a VPN on, could be an illusion but it always tends to clear up as soon as I activate the VPN.
I don't know what you were sold, of course. But surely you agree that deliberately making/letting people get sick is obviously evil.

What could possibly be a more pressing concern than people's health?

Indeed in many countries the original restrictions were lifted or ameliorated after the first wave. However -just looking at the numbers- obviously something went terribly wrong in the United States overall, and authorities were not able to keep their promise.

This sucks terribly. It doesn't magically make it safe to not have restrictions, of course.
My Android version does the same, but I did change the location of the toolbar to bottom in the settings.
Yes it got so bad i just turned it off. I especially dislike that it picks up names from the address book.
Gesture typing is surprisingly good though, i’ve just switched over to relying on it, still getting some typos but overall better than relying on ios autocorrect.
They talk about it in the article as contracted interruptible services that got shut down in France and Italy to reduce the draw on the grid.
I wonder how many downvoted you because they understood the sarcasm but they agreed with the non-sarcastic interpretation of it.
Verizon Fios is experiencing outages on the East Coast
I’m in the age group you mention and although I’ve only used a fax twice, I can totally understand the analogy.
> one of the first steps is going to create the mental abstraction that allows you to, precisaly, understand the code.

Precisely.

Now a short program is "short enough" that you can convince yourself it is correct; That is to say, I'm sure you can imagine writing "hello world" without making a mistake, and that there is some threshold of program length where your confidence in error-free programming will be lost. For every seeing-programmer I have ever met, and I suspect strongly all seeing-programmers, that length is measured in "source-code pixels". Not lines, or characters, but literal field of view. Smaller screen? More bugs.

Where you are forced to deal with your application in terms of the mental abstraction, rather than what the code actually says it does, it is simply because that code is off-screen, and that mental abstraction is a sieve: If you had any true confidence in it, you would not believe that program length correlates with bugs.

> scrolling is only going to be an issue for the first couple of reads.

I've worked on codebases large enough that they've taken a few years to read fully, and codebases changing so quickly that there's no point to learn everything. Sometimes you can read a program, and sometimes you can't, but when you can't, the damage that scrolling does seems infinitely worse.

> Is this going to increase "code reuse" by any significant amount?

Yes, and usually by a factor of a thousand or more.
I don't see how using containers in Firefox or auto-deleting cookies would have any negative effect here.

None of the cache deletion/isolation addons should inject any Javascript into the page or alter headers in any way, so they shouldn't be detectable to sites you visit. So in terms of unique behavior, all that site isolation means is that you're going to hit caches more often and be missing cookies.

I mean, sure, a website can recognize that you don't have any unique cross-site cookies to send them and make some inferences based on that, but the alternative is... having a unique cross-site cookie. So it's not like you're doing any better in that scenario.

I can see an argument against a few of these like DecentralEyes, since they change which resources you fetch at a more micro-level. But uBlock Origin and Multi Account Containers seem like strict privacy/security improvements to me.

UBlock Origin especially -- if you care about privacy, you should have that installed, because outside of very specific scenarios your biggest threat model should be 3rd-party ad-networks, not serverside 1st-party timing attacks/fingerprinting. No one should be running Chrome or Firefox without Ublock Origin installed.
Yev from Backblaze here -> sorry about that Thom - it's one of the things we're definitely working on hammering down. Right now we're growing quite a bit on our engineer and infrastructure teams and one of the projects we'd like to see is more automated status updates. We typically will throw updates onto Twitter or our blog if it's a large outage - or affecting many different people, but totally recognize that process can use some sprucing.
I guess it comes do “how widespread is the zoom outage.”

I.e. is zoom down for a lot of people whose internet is otherwise fine? If my fridge in Wisconsin is down because California lost power that’s more newsworthy.
I recently watched a charming documentary on Shannon, called The Bit Player [0]. The film has some annoying flaws, but it really highlights how much Shannon was outside the box for a mathematician. He seems to have been extremely playful, and tinkering with hardware projects throughout his life.

How he even managed to make a (very limited) endgame chess computer [1] ~70 years ago still blows my mind.

[0] https://thebitplayer.com/

[1] https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-man-who-built-the-che...
Maybe change the location of the toolbar (URL bar) to the bottom. I changed mine to the bottom in the Settings.
Why Parler Can’t Rebuild a Scalable Cloud Service from Scratch
Congress Prepares to Take on Big Tech
I see. So in Quora several people can answer a question but

1. Nobody can critique the answers

2. Nobody can critique the critique (if you could have such)

3. The Quora-format does not really invite posts like
"I think this is the way it is, is there anything wrong with my analysis?"

4. There is no mechanism to vote on consensus about what is the "truth"
Probably into another cycle of cheap products to which you'll migrate to, which will then increase prices and again and again until someone realizes that running sustainable services costs money.
I think we're only a couple years away from having highly productive computers with us all the time, but I think it's going to come through head mounted displays. There's been positive reports on the nreal[1] glasses user experience, and immersedvr[2] seems to have made a lot of progress in working in VR (on an oculus quest).

The usable screen sizes in these head mounted interfaces can already beat laptops, and I suspect someone will be able to solve the input problem with a new portable keyboard/mouse.

Cyberspace here we come!

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/nreal-light-mixed-reality-g...
[2] https://blog.immersed.team/working-in-vr-8-hrs-day-e8308b679...
It sounds like some people were experiencing a total loss of connectivity, but some were experiencing issues only with some sites.
An rsync.net account is the swiss army knife of cloud storage
Why would you use this when there's Lombok?
Firefox Relay seems easier to use, thanks to the one-click generated emails by the browser extension and the fact that the emails arrive in your actual inbox. But I agree that the domain is going to land on all the blacklists -- I hope they implement alternative domains for this reason.